The Fount of Useless Information
Your place for useless information that just might possibly be interesting.
Actually, it is the “Swedish Central Bank Prize in Economic Sciences” that was created “in memory” of Alfred Nobel…
The Nobel Prize in Economics? There Is No Nobel Prize in Economics
http://exiledonline.com/the-nobel-prize-in-economics-there-is-no-nobel-prize-in-economics/
Any of this sound familiar?
…Promoters of central
I don’t have that many reader(s), but felt that I would do my tiny part in promgulating yet another instance of partisian involvement in the operation of supposed non-partisan arms of the government…
Republican Pressure Leads to Withdrawal of Fact-Based …
Prior to my looking at the third-party candidates and reviewing them I am going to quickly describe my views so my reader(s) know from what direction I cast my gaze. I doubt this will be all encompassing (and I am …
Walmart supply chain: warehouse staff agencies accused of wage theft
‘They prey on people living on the edge,’ claim workers, who are already among the most vulnerable and lowest-paid in America
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/oct/18/walmart-supply-chain-agencies-accused-wage-theft
I can state with authority that this isn’t …
Is the middle class an endangered species?
After losing ground for four decades, middle America increasingly looks doomed. Here’s how it happened
http://www.salon.com/2012/10/24/is_the_middle_class_an_endangered_species/
This is likely to be a rambling post, brace yourself… I have felt in my gut for …
A Simple Fix for Farming
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/a-simple-fix-for-food/
I read many years ago about a rancher in the mid west that decided to forgo the hugely expensive and time consuming effort of clearing shrubs and bushes, killing ‘invasive’ browsers (like antelope) and …
Latest in mortgage fraud: Flopping
http://money.cnn.com/2012/10/23/real_estate/mortgage-fraud-flopping/index.html?source=cnn_bin
I had heard a bit about this before but didn’t realize it had been dignified with a name. The main issue I see here is that the IRS has the capability (that I believe …
Amazon wipes customer’s Kindle and deletes account with no explanation
Kindle user had her account deleted because it had ties to ‘previous abuses of company policy’, but the online retailer blanked all follow-up enquiries
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/oct/22/amazon-wipes-customers-kindle-deletes-account
This really underscores my objection …
Global warming stopped 16 years ago, reveals Met Office report quietly released… and here is the chart to prove it
Banks err by confusing risk, uncertainty
Complex prediction models may have blinded financial institutions to looming meltdown
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/345625/title/Banks_err_by_confusing_risk%2C_uncertainty
…Annual forecasts of currency values from December 2001 to December 2010, which guided banks’ investment decisions, badly missed the mark nine out